Well continue in the same fashion and try starting in safe mode and restore it to the time when it was working properly could be the answer. If you have installed or removed any software recently could the reason so try to reinstall or remove as the case may be and restore your PC to when the software had been installed/uninstalled. If nothing works try to repair the OS using the original OS CD....sodeep

May be a bad bios battery, try replacing battery loading setup defaults when this occurs and see what happens. the question i have is it a black screen or bios. if bios it probally is not holding settings and this is probally a bad battery

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HI Joe. It's likely you have a virus. Or could be just a corrupted section of the hard drive. The F8 is what gets you to the black screen with the differnt boot options. F2 or Del button gets you in the the BIOS or start up instrutions for the PC. F 12 will get you boot device options. The F12 or F2 needs to be pressed before it ever gets to try starting windows. So when you first power on, immediately start tapping the F12 about once a second. This should bring up a menu of which items/ device, to start from. [If you get a stuck key message just clear it and continue tapping F12 or start over] I would suggest you use the windos CD and choose the CD device to boot from, then it will recognize the CD drive. You could follow the CD start up options to peform a repair of windows. If you do a repair, then you should also perform a virus scan immediately after. If after all that, you still have issues, then it's likely the hard drive itself is bad or going bad and you should look at replaceing it. Good luck.

To
get into the Windows 2000 / XP Safe mode, as the computer is booting
press and hold your "F8 Key" which should bring up the "Windows Advanced
Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key.

Note:
With some computers, if you press and hold a key as the computer is
booting you will get a stuck key message. If this occurs, instead of
pressing and holding the "F8 key", tap the "F8 key" continuously until
you get the startup menu.

Trouble Getting into Windows 2000 or Windows XP Safe mode
- If after several attempts you are unable to get into Windows 2000 or
Windows XP Safe Mode as the computer is booting into Windows, turn off
your computer. When the computer is turned on the next time Windows
should notice that the computer did not successfully boot and give you
the Safe Mode screen.

Once
you're done in Safe mode if you want to get back into Normal Windows
restart the computer like you normally would and let it boot normally. Click here to get additional information about getting out of Safe mode.

To
get into the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Safe Mode, as the computer is
booting press and hold your "F8 Key" which should bring up the "Windows
Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key.

Note:
With some computers if you press and hold a key as the computer is
booting you will get a stuck key message. If this occurs, instead of
pressing and holding the "F8 key", tap the "F8 key" continuously until
you get the startup menu.

Trouble Getting into Safe mode
- If after several attempts you are unable to get into Safe Mode as the
computer is booting into Windows, turn off your computer. When the
computer is turned on the next time Windows should notice that the
computer did not successfully boot and give you the Safe Mode screen.

Check by rebooting it to BIOS--Press Del or F1 during boot....
Choose F8 option during startup intial stage-Windows
Choose Safe Mode----If it works---then No Problem with Hardware,,but with Operating System--Repair or Reinstall Operating System using Valid XP Serial Key

To get into the Windows 2000 / XP Safe mode, as the computer is
booting press and hold your "F8 Key" which should bring up the "Windows Advanced
Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move
to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key.Note: With some computers if you press and hold a key as the
computer is booting you will get a stuck key message. If this occurs, instead of
pressing and holding the "F8 key", tap the "F8 key" continuously until you get
the startup menu.Trouble Getting into Windows 2000 or Windows XP Safe mode -
If after several attempts you are unable to get into Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Safe Mode as the computer is booting into Windows, turn off your computer. When
the computer is turned on the next time Windows should notice that the computer
did not successfully boot and give you the Safe Mode screen.

I would suggest that you run only one stick of Ram at a time to determine if they are the problem.. Also these CPU's had heat problems that damaged the cpu. This also causes freezing. I would consider resetting the CPU and the heat sink, and case fans are clean and working.

Welcome to FixYa! Delete is the BIOS setup key at POST. F12 is a one-time boot option. Safe mode is accessed by repeatedly pressing the F8 key at the first Windows splash screen. Post again if you have further questions. Steve

Try pressing F8 as your machine gets ready to start windows. Keep tapping it until you get a menu. You can try "most recent settings that worked" or failing that try starting Windows in safe mode. If it will start in safe mode regress it to a point before your failed download using System Restore. If it won't start at all, you may need to reinstall Windows.